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Ok, I'll take a first crack at it. Using Baseball gauge with Baseruns for Offense, DRS for defense, split between FIP and Runs for Pitching. Also, generally like guys with both offensive and defensive value (one doesn't have to be that much if a player is dominant at the other) and generally like big producers at premium positions.

1) Evan Longoria (8.4) - DRS loves the glove and he was quite good with the bat.
2) Robinson Cano (7.8) - Big bat at 2B and the glove is decent by DRS accounting. Am considering for 1st as I don't believe the WAR difference is conclusive.
3) Adrian Beltre (7.3) - Nice year at 3B.
4) Roy Halladay (6.7) - Best Pitcher.
5) Josh Hamilton (7.3) - Rates ahead of Pujols for defense and playing 1/3 of his OF time in CF as opposed to Pujols as just 1B. Very close though.
6) Albert Pujols (7.3) - Rates ahead of Joey Bats for defensive reasons.
7) Felix Hernandex (6.5) - Very close to Halladay. WAR not conclusive here.
8) Jose Bautista (7.0) - Best pure hitter in 2010.
9) Troy Tulowitski (6.3) - Best SS, but WAR is enough behind Hamilton, Pujols, and Bautista that I can't rank him ahead of them.
10) Brett Gardner (6.7) - Nice mix of offense and defensive. His best season by a good margin IMO.
11) Carl Crawford (6.4) - Best offensive and overall season of his career.
12) Josh Johnson (6.1) - Forgot how good this guy was. Great ERA and FIP numbers.
13) Joey Votto (6.5) - Nice offensive season.
14) Ubaldo Jimenez (6.0) - Nice ERA and FIP considering his home park. My pick for his best season, though 2008 was quite good too.
15) Adam Wainwright (5.9) - Great ERA and Win numbers. FIP likes him but just not that into him.

Biggest consideration is going to Cliff Lee as he is by far the best pitcher based on 100% FIP WAR.

Honorable mention to the cloud of CFs around 5 WAR (Andres Torres, Angel Pagan, Michael Bourn, Chris Young, Austin Jackson, and Curtis Granderson). It was actual a pretty good year overall for the CF position, but none were great enough to merit MMP consideration.

Regarding #1 - if the player tests positive for PEDs they will usually be suspended for a half season or more. Otherwise you need to be omniscient to determine who took and who didn't for the entire league.

2 - I don't really understand the question

Here are the rules:

Candidate Eligibility: Any North American professional baseball player is eligible for the Most Meritorious Player (MMP) award including players on independent teams. Voters should consider the player’s on-field contribution to Major League Baseball (MLB) team(s) in that season only. If part of the season was spent outside MLB, that value may be considered as well. However, the player’s on-field contribution should be judged in relation to the highest level major league, not relative to a minor league. A season may include playoff or World Series games but does not include spring training or exhibition games. No credit will be given for games not played due to injury, wartime service or contract holdouts.

Ballot Length: For 2010, each voter should rank 15 players.

Voter eligibility: All voters who did not vote in the previous year’s election must post a preliminary ballot in the ballot discussion thread at least 2 days before voting ends. All voters must fill out a complete ballot. Voters must briefly explain their ballot choices. One person, one vote; anyone determined to have voted with multiple accounts will be banned and their votes will be disallowed. The MMP ballot committee has authority to exclude any ballot that does not meet these requirements.

Scoring: Points will be given in descending order with the highest-ranked player receiving 15 points, the second highest 14 points, and so on until the last player on the ballot receives 1 point. The player with the highest point total will be named the Most Meritorious Player. In case of a tie, the tiebreaker will be number of 1st place votes. If the first tiebreaker does not determine a winner the players will share the title of Most Meritorious Player.

With regards to #2, basically my question was whether we can weight contributions to teams in contention more heavily on teams that were hopelessly out of contention (i.e., a win curve argument). That is, wasn't sure if that was the difference between "Most Valuable" and "Most Meritorious." For example, rate Jimenez ahead of Votto because even though the former has more WAR, the latter played for a first place team.

Based on my reading of the rules you posted, it seems to me that context can be taken into consideration. What about contracts? Is $/WAR something that we can consider given that there's an opportunity cost associated with higher salary?

Voters should consider the player’s on-field contribution to Major League Baseball (MLB) team(s) in that season only

Salary would clearly be an off the field consideration. The concept behind the MMP was partly to get rid of the "value" argument of the MVP. We basically deleted everything but bullet 1, 4 and 5 from the MVP award criteria:

(1) actual value of a player to his team, that is, strength of offense and defense;
(2) number of games played;
(3) general character, disposition, loyalty and effort;
(4) former winners are eligible; and
(5) members of the committee may vote for more than one member of a team.

Pick the guy you think contributed the most on the field. Who was the best player in baseball in 2010?

I did a simple average of Kiko's pWOPA and BBRef's WAA to construct a statistic to rank order the players. Idea is that the combination of the two that are based on very different methodologies will yield an appropriate rank order. Evaluating whether to refine rankings by considering postseason performance, but for now just ranking strictly by average of pWOPA and bWAA

1) Evan Longoria: Best player on the AL East champions, mediocre in the postseason
2) Roy Halladay: Best player on the NL East champions, solid in the postseason
3) Joey Votto: Best player on the NL Central champions, although horrible in the postseason
4) Josh Hamilton: Best player on the AL West champions, fantastic ALCS
5) Robinson Cano: Best season by one of the best 2B of all-time, awesome postseason
6) Ubaldo Jimenez: Greatest season ever by a COL pitcher, did not make the postseason
7) Albert Pujols: One of the best NL hitters, did not make the postseason
8) Troy Tulowitski: Best season by the best offensive SS of the decade, did not make the postseason
9) Josh Johnson: Career year by a pitcher who had a very short career, did not make the postseason
10) Brett Gardner: 2nd best player on the AL Wild Card, terrible in the postseason
11) Jose Bautista: The AL "Where-The-Hell-Did-He-Come-From Player of the Year," did not make the postseason
12) Adam Wainwright: Best season by one of the best SP of the decade, did not make the postseason
13) Carl Crawford: 2nd best player on the AL East champions and last good season at 28, terrible postseason
14) Felix Hernandez: One of the best seasons by one of the best SP of the decade, did not make the postseason (101 losses)
15) Miguel Cabrera: Not one of his best seasons but still good to finish 2nd in MVP, did not make the postseason

NL "Where-the-Hell-Did-He-Come-From Player of the Year": Aubrey Huff (finished 20th in the average of pWOPA and WAA), finishing just ahead of teammate Andres Torres